Gaster Amulets : Tefillin

Parchment tefillin - head-tefillah.

Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
Collection: Gaster Amulet Collection
Classmark: Gaster Amulet 196
Title: Tefillin
Subject(s): Tefillin
Origin Place: Place of origin not known.
Date of Creation: 17th-19th century
Language(s): Hebrew
Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
Mode: Worn during prayer.
Function: Liturgy.
Note(s):
A single pericope in a single parchment scroll.
Quotation(s):
"והיה כי יבאך יהוה אל ארץ הכנעני..."
Extent: height: 32 mm, width: 275 mm.
Material(s): Parchment
Format: Roll
Condition:
Good condition, folding lines.
Shape: rectangle
Script:
Hebrew square script.
Layout: Written in a single column.
Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
Date of Acquisition: 1954
Data Source(s): Catalogue description is by Gal Sofer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva); edited by Zsófia Buda.

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Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
Collection: Gaster Amulet Collection
Classmark: Gaster Amulet 196
Title: Tefillin
Subject(s): Tefillin
Origin Place: Place of origin not known.
Date of Creation: 17th-19th century
Language(s): Hebrew
Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
Mode: Worn during prayer.
Function: Liturgy.
Note(s):
A single pericope in a single parchment scroll.
Quotation(s):
"והיה כי יבאך יהוה אל ארץ הכנעני..."
Extent: height: 32 mm, width: 275 mm.
Material(s): Parchment
Format: Roll
Condition:
Good condition, folding lines.
Shape: rectangle
Script:
Hebrew square script.
Layout: Written in a single column.
Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
Date of Acquisition: 1954
Data Source(s): Catalogue description is by Gal Sofer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva); edited by Zsófia Buda.